*Since writing to ASP on 12 October, SP had completed ‘Eavesdropper’ (15 October) and ‘Medusa’ (16 October). SP submitted ‘Eavesdropper’ with seven other poems to Poetry on 23 November. Accepted in Henry Rago to SP, 27 December 1962; letter held by Smith College. Sylvia Plath, ‘Fever 103’, ‘Purdah’, and ‘Eavesdropper, Poetry (August 1963): 292–8. SP made revisions to ‘Eavesdropper’ on 31 December 1962; however, as Ted Hughes noted, ‘No final copy was made’ (Collected Poems, p. 294).